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I would clip the blown-up cap out and toss it.
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Yeah, it has a ceramic disc capacitor in the circuit besides those two paper caps but the ceramic cap isn't going to be bad and besides I don't count ceramic disc capacitors when I'm referring to paper capacitors in these old radios.
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Zenith made some later AA5 AM sets that had only ceramic caps...Only thing to go wrong on those aside from tubes is the lytic pair.
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I actually took the liberty to taking OldCoot's advice and just snipping out the bumblebee cap and putting the radio back together and the radio still works fine but there is lots of RF Interference though that I noticed wasn't there before I took the blown Bumblebee Cap out (althouth the station I checked it with has a tendancy to get a little staticy in the evening so maybe that's what I was hearing.) Last edited by Captainclock; 07-18-2015 at 04:13 PM. |
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That's still the fewest capacitors I've seen in an AA5 circuit before. |
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